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Chicago examiner five cents Chicago december 20 1914 sunday sunday vol xv no 2 5 .â€” a m dannenberg resigns as sensation is promised funkhouser and civil service commission give him clean bill when rumors of graft evidence are heard william c dapneirtierg resigned his position a city morals inspector yesterday and the expose of promi nent chicagoans threatened by his civil service trial was averted tem porarily this may noi be the end of the aso however serious charges were made against tlio morals in spector one in particular said to in volve prominent city officials and there is likely to be a demand from certain official quarters liai there be b public hearing of th.r charges that they may be thoroughly thrashed out dannenberg's action canie a the fiid of a four-hour conference at which he second deputj superin tendent of police funkhouser and tli members of the civil service commis sion were present it was an open secret at the city hall yesterday that t lie situation developed by the charges against the morals inspector had i ome too hot to handle and that the sensations that would de velep at a public hearing of the accu saiiih against him must be avoided suppression is sought the strongest charge agarnst dan immipi â– !â– (.' was i!i:i a'ccusfh'g him of taking an anonymous letter from the files of the department and reveal ing its contents to the keeper o j call flat who was accused in it at th conference it developed that any airing of this charge would i'rmjr one of the greatest sensations Chicago ever has known the examiner last night found this woman and her story together with what already was known of the af fair gives color to the intimation that dannenberg's resignation will pre vent the public knowledge of facts that might involve hi^h officials of ihe city government unless they are brought out through other procced ngi . that they maj be brought out i more than a possibility the letter already lui-s been declared bj chief postal inspector james e stuart to be llbelous although it probably is not a violation of anj federal law graft is suspected private detectives have been em ployed for several months by the woman accused in the letter who is mrs vii>]e i'hipps she formerly lived in 164 east twenty-fourth street ami later at 4003 calumet ave nue she is the woman from whom dannenberg obtained the book.s which he expected would be of material aid in an investigation he was con ducting on information given him that certain high police officials had been accepting money as a reward for permitting mrs i'hipps to con duct her call flat unmolested mrs phippa said last night that she h:id laid the matter before the federal authorities mrs p!>i]'ns s;iid major funkhouser permitted the anonymous letter to be een by a person outside the police â€¢ lepartniont long before dannenberg used it she said a private detective in her employ had a conference with the second deputy and was shown the letter describes pink letter mrs violet phippa is the woman in the rase concerning the letter which major funkhouser bald bad been taken from the records of his department by dannenberg mrs phipps was se.-n by m examiner re porter last night she said in the first place 1 want ii io be distinctly understood thai this letter was not made public 'â€¢â– > mr dannenberg first the letter was a twelve page Â« plstle written on pink paper in purple ink and was signed by a woman who called herself ;, neighbor this was the only signature on the letter as a matter of act 1 knuv and can prove that this letter was written by a woman who is Â„ i present living on the north side at an address in oakdale avenue who formerly was an inmate of my call flat whitrh is a.sbailed the letter was aimed ai me for reasons which 1 need not dis cuss except that she had a spite against me arid hoped to make trouble for me before i could get at her the letter was most libelpus and contained statements that were utterly untrue and im possible and could have had no other effect than to convict the writer herself of the things she waid against me during last summer the writer vf this letter was causing me all 1 sorts of annoyance calling me on the telephone all hours of the day and night and hounding me she employe tells webbhe spied on him 11 months george w lyons confesses to . review board member detect ive agency hired him alter eleven months of spying upon his employer and failing in all that i , time to find any evidence of mis conduct ijeorge y lyons an em j ploye or the puhl-webb coffee firm i yesterday told thomas j webb mem i | ber of the firm what he had been j ' doing lyons said he iuu been hired , by a detective firm in the interests : of a ri\al coffee stablishment to spy ' \ on the puhl-webb concern and learn i j whether webb was using his official i position as a member of the board of ' ! review to get business for the house lyons said he had ever offered to | â– take care of the taxes of prospect ; ive customers but that such an in i ducement hud failed to bring any [ business i could find no evidence that mr j webb ever had clone anything crim ' i inal said lyons yesterday the j j only way 1 could have got any evi i 1 dence would have been to job him | j a they sometimes put a watch in a : man's pocket and then arrest him for j stealing it 1 wouldn't do that and l finally got ashamed of myself and , i told mr webb why i had been work ! ing for him " are you still in ihe employ of mr webb he was asked i don't know was his reply oriental birds sing at leiter kin's debut washington dec 19 â€” yvash , ington society danced in costumes to-night in an oriental garden heavy with the fragrance of plants and alive with twittering birds broug'lil from the orient by mr and mrs jo seph leiter for the debut ball of miss prances williams sister of mrs leiter mrs l,eiter wore the costume of a royal princess of india of gold cloth and purple satin and a wonderful in dian ht-atl dress of jewels she wore the famous leiter pearls and rubied hiss williams was dressed as a chinese girl of high degree in deep crimson embroidered in gold and col ors the work on which took five months to complete scandinavian kings will stay neutral maximo sweden dec 19 â€” the con ference of the three scandinavian kings closed to-day a full agree ment relating to the neutrality of the three countries was reached an agreement was reached on the means to be adopted to obtain alle viations of the measures taken by the belligerents which impede scandina vian commerce and shipping the steps which the conference agreed to take are not directed against any single power or group of powers woman is held up ; she outruns bullet mrs ida waarick 846 lill avenue challenged a revolver bullet to a race last night and won two high waymen held her up in front of 816 lill avenue and told her if she moved they would shoot her mrs waarick moved and moved quickly scream ing for aid the robbers fired one shot after her but the bullet missed its mark i just outran that bul let that's all there was to it " mrs waarick panted when she reached home judge lindsey iii pneumonia feared denver col dec 19 ben b lindsey judge of denver's juvenile court is reported seriously ill threat ened with pneumonia in spite of his illness however he accepted a sub poena a n witness in a case now pending before his court it involves charles k claire former militiaman and a gir named earnum 200,000 loss in 3 montgomery fires montgomery ala dec i three fires happening at practically the same time caused a loss of ap proximately 200,000 in montgomery to-day news stories of graft add six police to list james shannon ex-saloon keep er tells hoyne he paid 25 to too a week protection money two more confessions one by a no torious burglar and the other by a former proprietor of one of chicago's toughest saloon were yesterday added to state's attorney maclav hoyne's list of squeals in connec tion with his investigation of the al liance between crooked policemen and criminals as a result six more detectives have beer caught in the graft net and two of these travel out of an outlying station heretofore prac tically all of the charges made by the half dozen squealers hit only those in the detective bureau isadore wexler serving a sentence for burglary in the joliet peniten tiary related to the state's attorney the systematic operations of a burglar syndicate which worked on a million dollar basis and wherein tour members of the police depart ment received a good share of the loot as protection money wexler named the crooked detectives and m \ p the names of witnesses he said would corroborate his statement shannon tells story the other new confession was made by james shannon whose no torious " saloons at 1957 milwaukee avenue and 1500 twelfth street have been closed by the police because th'ey were headquarters for safe blowers burglars pickpockets and disreputable women but these places were not closed shannon points out until after he had refused to i pay his weekly price for protection my milwaukee avenue saloon was tie hangout of all sorts of criminals and disreputable women and the po lice of the shakespeare avenue sta tion were well aware of it too bald shannon business was running along fine while my silent partners naming two detectives in the shakes peare avenue station were-*gettms from 25 to 100 a week out of the profits i'll admit my place was a vicious place 1 thrived on the business brought in by criminals and disrepu table women but i have been dou i ble-crossed 1 and i'm out to show up these crooked coppers who have taken nearly every dollar i made across the street from the rear of my place is a flat at 1947 north western avenue it was a resort op crated for me by mrs pat crowe wife of the man in the famous cudahy kid naping case women came into my saloon unescorted they approached my customers two weeks after the flat opened the.se coppers got wise to it and made me double the weekly protection money says they have altos i might add these same coppers now own automobiles figure it out for yourself finally i got tired dividing my profits with the detectives and told i them so when they called for their bit one saturday night eight weeks ago we got into a hot argument and i ordered them out of the saloon i they refused i then invited one of i them outside to show him i could trim him he refused then they pinched me for disorderly conduct and judge gemmill fined me 1 and costs their next move was to file a complaint against my saloon alleg ing it was a hangout for crooks and women the charges were true but why didn't these coppers arrest them during the year and a half they prac tically lived in my place the an swer is that the coppers didn't care so long as they got theirs both shannon and wexler will ap pear before the grand jury to-mor row when the investigation into po lice corruption will be resumed the detectives named by wexler allowed the burglar syndicate to steal 500,000 in goods in Chicago alone by similar arrangements with the police in other cities from san francisco to paris the gang got away with an equal amount of mer chandise wexler first described the bur glary syndicate which consisted of five or six members with confed erates in every large city in the coun try the organization was on a special ized business basis Chicago was the clearing house for loot and from this city the connections of the gang ; stretched to fences and scouts in other cities where the jobs were done we made about " 1,000,000 in the i'nited states said the informer i other cities in which we worked ; were new york boston omaha st 1 louis minneapolis and milwaukee 55,000,000 at stake sisters won't fight new york dec 19 â€” two of the sister of the late john g wendel i the hermit of fifth avenue have applied at white plains for letters of j administration as his next of kin | as he left no will his entire estate estimated at 55 000,000 will go to ' four sisters and the consent of the | other two that letters be granted ac j companied the application mr wen ! del who owned more broadway real 1 estate than any other man and more inew york realty than any single in terest except the astor estate died in california a few weeks ago leav ing no will clark says u.s is taking over state activity by champ clark neglect to do important things responsible for centraliza tion of power washington dec 19 t0 those who having eyes see and hav ing ears hear it is clear as crys tal that the tendency in this country for several years has been to concen trate all governmental functions in washington and this tendency is growing at an amazing rate the hamlltonians are glad of it all oth ers who think on the subject regret it but they cannot shut their eyes to the fact that such a tendency not only exists but is increasing among the reasons i would name first modern inventions â€” such as tel egraphs railroads steamboats tele phones ilying machines etc these have brought the various parts of our wide-extended domain into closer juxtaposition have made neighbors of maine and california oregon and florida they in a large sense have obliterated state lines and have been the direct means of multiplying busi ness in the federal courts many fold thereby diminishing the power of the individual states and increasing enor mously the power of the federal gov ernment this taken in connection with the growth in numbers and wealth of corporations has taken to the federal courts most of the more imporant and profitable litigation ixtkrstate commerce in a business way the most far reaching court decision ever rendered in america was the one declaring a corporation to be a citizen of the state in which it has its headquar ters within the meaning of the con stitution conferring jurisdiction on federal courts where a citizen of one state sues a citizen of another state the most important clause in the constitution the one which has | wrought the most prodigious changes is the one conferring control of inter state commerce on the federal gov ernment of course interstate commerce at that time amounted to little but it jias grown with our growth and strengthened with our strength until it is staggering in the figures of its volume when i first came to congress in 1593 the committee on interstate and foreign commerce did not stand in importance higher than seventh or e>ghth among the committees of the house bim/t panama ' caxal now it is really the leading com mittee in thfi house next to the com mittee on ways and means . an examination of the congrssional record for the last five years will show that barring tariff sessions more time is consumed in discussing bills from the committee on inter state and foreign commerce than bills from any other committee ex cept appropriations it superintended the building of the panama canal with its pure food bills and bills of kindred charac ter it has been instrumental in creating an army of federal officials so numerous that it would make the fathers turn over in their graves could they contemplate it but of all the causes which tend to centralize all functions of govern ment in washington the fact that the state governments have practically abdicated many of their functions heads the list numerous things that the states ought to do are not done by them but are passed on to the federal gov ernment macaulay says that sir robert walpole was avaricious of power the great historian might well and truly have extended his re mark to include all mankind consequently congress has gone on legislating on subjects over which its jurisdiction is shadowy and doubt ful until the entire fabric of the government is rapidly becoming a consolidated empire the things ought to be done the states ousht to do them but neglect and refuse to do them the people want them and congress being in a complaisant frame of mind does them thereby exalting the federal government at the expense of the state governments lane dem hughes rep are favorites new orleans la dec 18 in response to 9,000 letters which were recently sent out by the lawyer and banker a legal and financial publica tion asking the receivers to submit their choice among the leading men of the country for the presidency in 1916 the following answers were re ceived : democratic franklin k line of california 1,1111 wood rmv wilson of new jersey ilkt cliann lnrk of missonr.i too oscar underwood of ai:iu j 345 ieonse iray of delaware 120 choice for vice president was largely favorable to senator lewis of Illinois with vice president mar shall second republican justice hughes of new york j..-m jtodm it mann of Illinois slti : governor elect whit man of new york 10 m t henk'k of ohiu .':<Â«>; senator isoi.ih of malio 11)7 hiram w johnson of california ti'.l theodore roosevelt of usster kay 11 for vice president senator hui of idaho led all other candidates war makers to face lynching asserts jordan professor attributes all race de generation to armed conflict ! people of slums he says will repopulate europe war destroys everything it creates nothing except destruc tion i venture to predict that the time will come when people will be afraid to agitate or bring on war for fear they will be caught and lynched in these words professor david starr jordan of beland stanford university summed up bis address on war in relation to eugenics in the frances willard hall under the auspices of the eugenics educational society yesterday afternoon professor jordan's talk developed into an argument for perpetual i peace lie lost track of the eugenics j | feature after the first five minutes land declared no nation has ever fallen from its mental and physical estate except through war there is no other agency which destroys an empire as another empire does through the force of arms you can do a great many things by force of arms and fear but noth ing permanent results except de struction the emperor of a nation is the barometer when he goes up â€” ascends in power â€” his people go down and war does not destroy bad men it destroys good men in fact the flower of the nation leaving the pun slovenly un dersized and physically unfit men who cannot fight to be the fathers of the next generation a well-known german proverb conveys this fact stronger than any other expression i know it is war creates more scoun drels than it kills or in the words of benjamin franklin the first man in the united states to see the destruction of war wars are not paid for in war times the bill comes later war alone to blame for race degenerating regarding eugenics and the neces sity for it prof jordan said degeneration would not exist in the human race if it were not for war left alone the various nationalities would purify them selves as they flow along as a river will but through war we kill off the flower of man hood leaving the poorest speci mens to perpetuate the race a herd of cattle will degener ate if you kill off the best and breed the poorest as also will a herd of sheep or a herd of any kind of animals the only reason why it is pos sible to-day to throw europe into war is because of previous wars which have sapped up the flower of its manhood and with that its initiative the people are being driven out like sheep to be slaughtered all believing they are dying for the good of their country and for god not know ing that god doesn't approve of it at all picked 1 men first led to slaughter the late william t stead not long ago prepared a list of uni versity students from germany england france belgium the united states and the other na tions which he called the picked half n-illiou what is becoming of this picked half million 1 was in england during the first few weeks of the war i visited ox io<-d of the 3,000 students reg istered there t found only 300 at clasps mone of those men was an a'hlete the same is true of tlit other english uni versities and ti;e universities of ihe other nrarrinf nations the professor david starr jordan who predicts that fear or lynching will prevent would-be agitators from | stmiiiiij another great icar picked men are the first to go to slaughter while in london 1 saw re cruiting going on as the days naased the streets gradually took on a different appearance instead of being thronged with strong sturdy men they be came flooded with puny sham bling specimens of humanity who could not fight if they wanted to slums to furnish next generation these are the children of the slums the product of previous wars no nation on earth heed have slums except for war and these slums with their drink and vice and their symptom's of weakness are destined to fur nish great britain its future generation tt is a source of wonder to me how england has survived as it has in its cathedrals are 25,000 ttronze tablets in mem ory of men stricken down in battle and there are more than 100,000 more names in parish churches england has ex changed its yeomanry for bronze tablets and what is true of england is true of the other nations at war effects of civil war plainly visible yet in our country we have ex amples in virginia along the line of the battles of bull run and the appomattox once the center of sturdy manhood our men have not yet reached their normal state although they are improving as the years pass by when i was in boston an ed itor asked me where are the successors of the fifty orators who made boston the intel lectual center of the nation my answer is that they are among the ninety harvard grad uates who fell in the civil war and whose names are honored in harvard memorial hall scotland has been thinned by war and by emigration i visited that country recently i never dreamed that such men as i saw in dundee existed they may talk a language that sounds something like burns but they do not begin to look the part prof jordan will speak at the ma jestic theater this morning and in the red room of the hotel la salle this afternoon baby strangled by string in her crib evelyn uojka eleven months old was found dead last night in her crib where she had been chewing at a rubber nipple suspended by a string around her neck in turning over the baby sot her arm tangled in the string which was drawn tight about her throat the baby had been dead tor an hour when her father found her the family lives at 1434 biackhawk street germans drive russ from lowicz cffimen in german rear says petrograd i victory fifty miles be hind von hindenburg's advance on warsaw taken to indicate new trap is sprung posen german army head quarters in the east dec 18 via berlin and london dec 20 3:59 a m â€” field marshal von hinden burg's army took lowicz to-day ; friday after heavy fighting for | several days and compelled the fur ; ther retirement of the russian ! lines special cable to the examiner petrograd dec 19 the re j port issued by the russian general ] staff to-night puts a different com ; ! plexion on the situation in poland from that asserted in berlin the general staff announces that i kussiau army is operating success fully in the rear of the force mar shal von hindenburg has drawn up j west of warsaw there is a bare in ! timation in the announcement that ! the advanced german army may | find itself in a trap when the rus | sians before warsaw are strength ened sufficiently by reinforcements to take the offensive to-day at dobrzyn eighteen miles southwest of plock and fifty miles in the rear of the advance operations | of the germans a russian army re j pulsed a german force and prevented it from crossing the vistula the text of the official statement was as follows our artillery repelled the en emy's attempt to cross the vistula at dobrzyn we compelled him to ! evacuate hurriedly an island in the i middle of the vistula capturing i his pontoons elsewhere we re pelled several attacks in western galicia friday night we took 1,000 prisoners london dec 19 â€” official denial of german claims of victory in the east was made in petrograd to-day the german staff admits that the kaiser's troops have been driven from cichenof assaults cojstimje the german assaults to take war saw are being continued at teresin | on the railroad between warsaw and sachaezew according to berlin re ports fierce hand-to-hand conflicts under the glare of german search lights took place there but after they had lasted for seven hours the ger mans were repulsed according to dis patches from petrograd in five at i tacks the germans are sairj to have lost 6,000 men i stil.l mexace cracow the present situation in the vistula i region apparently is exerting no in â– rtuence on the crucial operations to i tlie south around cracow the rus ! sian forces which are threatening the 1 old polish capital and the silesiau frontier remain fixed in their posi tions and the austrian rally which brought back teutonic forces across the carpathians seems to have met with a chock a vienna report states that on the ' i battlefield of limanowa the enemy | was completely routed western ga licia is now clear of hostile forces the austro-hungarians took 26,000 prisoners and a large quantity of war material the russian losses were enormous the pursuit is be ing followed up advices from amsterdam declare that a russian armored train carry ing ammunition and food irani lem burg to the carpathians was blown up and destroyed by austrian mines and 200 were killed hi ss flkecvg says iii:ui.i berlin dec 19 â€” the official press bureau to-dny said on the east prussian frontier a russian cavalry attack west of pil kallen was repulsed in poland the pursuit of the enemy is proceeding nothing is known publicly of the character of the russian retirement or of the pursuit neither are there any details yet of r>neral von hin denburg'e victory war now like huge siege of germany expert says kaiser can mass superior num bers at any point on ring but weakens forces by transfers by hilaire belloc foremost military writer of eti rope j london dec 19 the war situation at this moment of writ is as follows about three weeks ago there â– was a very serious mena.ee of a russian advance upon cracow which after investing the fort ress would have had ample re maining forces for the invasion of silesia immediately behind it silesia is the pittsburgh of prussia full of factories ar wealth and also containing landed property of many w have influence with the prus sian governmfiii the russian invasion of silesia therefore would have had a capital effeel â– â€” perhaps a disastrous i upon the rest of the campaign in germany puthÂ»t possession of this point threatened vienna just as ii berlin in order to relieve tin pressure upon cracow a german general who already had won much distinction in the !â€¢â– war â€” that is von him massed troops behind the iron tier by rail leavini â– men in front of c to hold ihe prussian line he hi ought his troops around by the strategic railway which runs parallel with the russo-german frontier to tin north to the neighborhood thorn between the vistula an the warthe anil struck sudd for warsaw the importance oi wasaw v;i th i all the â– railways in russian poland con centrate upon this capital and any one in possession of warsaw and its bridges cuts the com r . munication of any kussinn . operating in middle and north ern poland deadlock aroi'xd warsaw the second battle of warsaw already has lasted a month dur ing the last fortnight there has been developed a curiously unde cided state of affairs the rus sian line extends sixty miles roughly coincident with the line of the river bzura the ex treme right was upon the a'i.s tula the left past and in front of lodz and then further round down the south front to pietro kow the right reposing on the vis tula which most immediately i\v - fends warsaw was only a week ago forty miles from that town the center and left front at lodz suffered a continual increasing pressure on the part of the mans who with consequences [ will spenk of in a moment have been withdrawing men from the west this pressure compelled the russians to evacuate the great manufacturing city of lfodz and the line behind it german pressure on the arrival of further reinforcements from the west continued day after and upon wednesday last de cember 16 the russian right fell back ten miles and though still defending warsaw is now only thirty miles in front of that city ever since then that is during thursday friday n aturday things have been . lstill on this line the slow if continuous ger i man advance naturally has been a made the most of in berlin^b where the press though not tli<fl official notices speak of it a though it were already dei^m ive but an impartial ~ v^t of war should not t cannot even be t v trita of n decision in poland wbi^b warsaw is occupied for warsaw is the point upon whi.jh all north ern communications concentrate piishku hack i'ro.v cracow meanwhile in scathern po land in front of cra--ov . to re lieve which all the heavy ger man work in the 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Chicago examiner five cents Chicago december 20 1914 sunday sunday vol xv no 2 5 .â€” a m dannenberg resigns as sensation is promised funkhouser and civil service commission give him clean bill when rumors of graft evidence are heard william c dapneirtierg resigned his position a city morals inspector yesterday and the expose of promi nent chicagoans threatened by his civil service trial was averted tem porarily this may noi be the end of the aso however serious charges were made against tlio morals in spector one in particular said to in volve prominent city officials and there is likely to be a demand from certain official quarters liai there be b public hearing of th.r charges that they may be thoroughly thrashed out dannenberg's action canie a the fiid of a four-hour conference at which he second deputj superin tendent of police funkhouser and tli members of the civil service commis sion were present it was an open secret at the city hall yesterday that t lie situation developed by the charges against the morals inspector had i ome too hot to handle and that the sensations that would de velep at a public hearing of the accu saiiih against him must be avoided suppression is sought the strongest charge agarnst dan immipi â– !â– (.' was i!i:i a'ccusfh'g him of taking an anonymous letter from the files of the department and reveal ing its contents to the keeper o j call flat who was accused in it at th conference it developed that any airing of this charge would i'rmjr one of the greatest sensations Chicago ever has known the examiner last night found this woman and her story together with what already was known of the af fair gives color to the intimation that dannenberg's resignation will pre vent the public knowledge of facts that might involve hi^h officials of ihe city government unless they are brought out through other procced ngi . that they maj be brought out i more than a possibility the letter already lui-s been declared bj chief postal inspector james e stuart to be llbelous although it probably is not a violation of anj federal law graft is suspected private detectives have been em ployed for several months by the woman accused in the letter who is mrs vii>]e i'hipps she formerly lived in 164 east twenty-fourth street ami later at 4003 calumet ave nue she is the woman from whom dannenberg obtained the book.s which he expected would be of material aid in an investigation he was con ducting on information given him that certain high police officials had been accepting money as a reward for permitting mrs i'hipps to con duct her call flat unmolested mrs phippa said last night that she h:id laid the matter before the federal authorities mrs p!>i]'ns s;iid major funkhouser permitted the anonymous letter to be een by a person outside the police â€¢ lepartniont long before dannenberg used it she said a private detective in her employ had a conference with the second deputy and was shown the letter describes pink letter mrs violet phippa is the woman in the rase concerning the letter which major funkhouser bald bad been taken from the records of his department by dannenberg mrs phipps was se.-n by m examiner re porter last night she said in the first place 1 want ii io be distinctly understood thai this letter was not made public 'â€¢â– > mr dannenberg first the letter was a twelve page Â« plstle written on pink paper in purple ink and was signed by a woman who called herself ;, neighbor this was the only signature on the letter as a matter of act 1 knuv and can prove that this letter was written by a woman who is Â„ i present living on the north side at an address in oakdale avenue who formerly was an inmate of my call flat whitrh is a.sbailed the letter was aimed ai me for reasons which 1 need not dis cuss except that she had a spite against me arid hoped to make trouble for me before i could get at her the letter was most libelpus and contained statements that were utterly untrue and im possible and could have had no other effect than to convict the writer herself of the things she waid against me during last summer the writer vf this letter was causing me all 1 sorts of annoyance calling me on the telephone all hours of the day and night and hounding me she employe tells webbhe spied on him 11 months george w lyons confesses to . review board member detect ive agency hired him alter eleven months of spying upon his employer and failing in all that i , time to find any evidence of mis conduct ijeorge y lyons an em j ploye or the puhl-webb coffee firm i yesterday told thomas j webb mem i | ber of the firm what he had been j ' doing lyons said he iuu been hired , by a detective firm in the interests : of a ri\al coffee stablishment to spy ' \ on the puhl-webb concern and learn i j whether webb was using his official i position as a member of the board of ' ! review to get business for the house lyons said he had ever offered to | â– take care of the taxes of prospect ; ive customers but that such an in i ducement hud failed to bring any [ business i could find no evidence that mr j webb ever had clone anything crim ' i inal said lyons yesterday the j j only way 1 could have got any evi i 1 dence would have been to job him | j a they sometimes put a watch in a : man's pocket and then arrest him for j stealing it 1 wouldn't do that and l finally got ashamed of myself and , i told mr webb why i had been work ! ing for him " are you still in ihe employ of mr webb he was asked i don't know was his reply oriental birds sing at leiter kin's debut washington dec 19 â€” yvash , ington society danced in costumes to-night in an oriental garden heavy with the fragrance of plants and alive with twittering birds broug'lil from the orient by mr and mrs jo seph leiter for the debut ball of miss prances williams sister of mrs leiter mrs l,eiter wore the costume of a royal princess of india of gold cloth and purple satin and a wonderful in dian ht-atl dress of jewels she wore the famous leiter pearls and rubied hiss williams was dressed as a chinese girl of high degree in deep crimson embroidered in gold and col ors the work on which took five months to complete scandinavian kings will stay neutral maximo sweden dec 19 â€” the con ference of the three scandinavian kings closed to-day a full agree ment relating to the neutrality of the three countries was reached an agreement was reached on the means to be adopted to obtain alle viations of the measures taken by the belligerents which impede scandina vian commerce and shipping the steps which the conference agreed to take are not directed against any single power or group of powers woman is held up ; she outruns bullet mrs ida waarick 846 lill avenue challenged a revolver bullet to a race last night and won two high waymen held her up in front of 816 lill avenue and told her if she moved they would shoot her mrs waarick moved and moved quickly scream ing for aid the robbers fired one shot after her but the bullet missed its mark i just outran that bul let that's all there was to it " mrs waarick panted when she reached home judge lindsey iii pneumonia feared denver col dec 19 ben b lindsey judge of denver's juvenile court is reported seriously ill threat ened with pneumonia in spite of his illness however he accepted a sub poena a n witness in a case now pending before his court it involves charles k claire former militiaman and a gir named earnum 200,000 loss in 3 montgomery fires montgomery ala dec i three fires happening at practically the same time caused a loss of ap proximately 200,000 in montgomery to-day news stories of graft add six police to list james shannon ex-saloon keep er tells hoyne he paid 25 to too a week protection money two more confessions one by a no torious burglar and the other by a former proprietor of one of chicago's toughest saloon were yesterday added to state's attorney maclav hoyne's list of squeals in connec tion with his investigation of the al liance between crooked policemen and criminals as a result six more detectives have beer caught in the graft net and two of these travel out of an outlying station heretofore prac tically all of the charges made by the half dozen squealers hit only those in the detective bureau isadore wexler serving a sentence for burglary in the joliet peniten tiary related to the state's attorney the systematic operations of a burglar syndicate which worked on a million dollar basis and wherein tour members of the police depart ment received a good share of the loot as protection money wexler named the crooked detectives and m \ p the names of witnesses he said would corroborate his statement shannon tells story the other new confession was made by james shannon whose no torious " saloons at 1957 milwaukee avenue and 1500 twelfth street have been closed by the police because th'ey were headquarters for safe blowers burglars pickpockets and disreputable women but these places were not closed shannon points out until after he had refused to i pay his weekly price for protection my milwaukee avenue saloon was tie hangout of all sorts of criminals and disreputable women and the po lice of the shakespeare avenue sta tion were well aware of it too bald shannon business was running along fine while my silent partners naming two detectives in the shakes peare avenue station were-*gettms from 25 to 100 a week out of the profits i'll admit my place was a vicious place 1 thrived on the business brought in by criminals and disrepu table women but i have been dou i ble-crossed 1 and i'm out to show up these crooked coppers who have taken nearly every dollar i made across the street from the rear of my place is a flat at 1947 north western avenue it was a resort op crated for me by mrs pat crowe wife of the man in the famous cudahy kid naping case women came into my saloon unescorted they approached my customers two weeks after the flat opened the.se coppers got wise to it and made me double the weekly protection money says they have altos i might add these same coppers now own automobiles figure it out for yourself finally i got tired dividing my profits with the detectives and told i them so when they called for their bit one saturday night eight weeks ago we got into a hot argument and i ordered them out of the saloon i they refused i then invited one of i them outside to show him i could trim him he refused then they pinched me for disorderly conduct and judge gemmill fined me 1 and costs their next move was to file a complaint against my saloon alleg ing it was a hangout for crooks and women the charges were true but why didn't these coppers arrest them during the year and a half they prac tically lived in my place the an swer is that the coppers didn't care so long as they got theirs both shannon and wexler will ap pear before the grand jury to-mor row when the investigation into po lice corruption will be resumed the detectives named by wexler allowed the burglar syndicate to steal 500,000 in goods in Chicago alone by similar arrangements with the police in other cities from san francisco to paris the gang got away with an equal amount of mer chandise wexler first described the bur glary syndicate which consisted of five or six members with confed erates in every large city in the coun try the organization was on a special ized business basis Chicago was the clearing house for loot and from this city the connections of the gang ; stretched to fences and scouts in other cities where the jobs were done we made about " 1,000,000 in the i'nited states said the informer i other cities in which we worked ; were new york boston omaha st 1 louis minneapolis and milwaukee 55,000,000 at stake sisters won't fight new york dec 19 â€” two of the sister of the late john g wendel i the hermit of fifth avenue have applied at white plains for letters of j administration as his next of kin | as he left no will his entire estate estimated at 55 000,000 will go to ' four sisters and the consent of the | other two that letters be granted ac j companied the application mr wen ! del who owned more broadway real 1 estate than any other man and more inew york realty than any single in terest except the astor estate died in california a few weeks ago leav ing no will clark says u.s is taking over state activity by champ clark neglect to do important things responsible for centraliza tion of power washington dec 19 t0 those who having eyes see and hav ing ears hear it is clear as crys tal that the tendency in this country for several years has been to concen trate all governmental functions in washington and this tendency is growing at an amazing rate the hamlltonians are glad of it all oth ers who think on the subject regret it but they cannot shut their eyes to the fact that such a tendency not only exists but is increasing among the reasons i would name first modern inventions â€” such as tel egraphs railroads steamboats tele phones ilying machines etc these have brought the various parts of our wide-extended domain into closer juxtaposition have made neighbors of maine and california oregon and florida they in a large sense have obliterated state lines and have been the direct means of multiplying busi ness in the federal courts many fold thereby diminishing the power of the individual states and increasing enor mously the power of the federal gov ernment this taken in connection with the growth in numbers and wealth of corporations has taken to the federal courts most of the more imporant and profitable litigation ixtkrstate commerce in a business way the most far reaching court decision ever rendered in america was the one declaring a corporation to be a citizen of the state in which it has its headquar ters within the meaning of the con stitution conferring jurisdiction on federal courts where a citizen of one state sues a citizen of another state the most important clause in the constitution the one which has | wrought the most prodigious changes is the one conferring control of inter state commerce on the federal gov ernment of course interstate commerce at that time amounted to little but it jias grown with our growth and strengthened with our strength until it is staggering in the figures of its volume when i first came to congress in 1593 the committee on interstate and foreign commerce did not stand in importance higher than seventh or e>ghth among the committees of the house bim/t panama ' caxal now it is really the leading com mittee in thfi house next to the com mittee on ways and means . an examination of the congrssional record for the last five years will show that barring tariff sessions more time is consumed in discussing bills from the committee on inter state and foreign commerce than bills from any other committee ex cept appropriations it superintended the building of the panama canal with its pure food bills and bills of kindred charac ter it has been instrumental in creating an army of federal officials so numerous that it would make the fathers turn over in their graves could they contemplate it but of all the causes which tend to centralize all functions of govern ment in washington the fact that the state governments have practically abdicated many of their functions heads the list numerous things that the states ought to do are not done by them but are passed on to the federal gov ernment macaulay says that sir robert walpole was avaricious of power the great historian might well and truly have extended his re mark to include all mankind consequently congress has gone on legislating on subjects over which its jurisdiction is shadowy and doubt ful until the entire fabric of the government is rapidly becoming a consolidated empire the things ought to be done the states ousht to do them but neglect and refuse to do them the people want them and congress being in a complaisant frame of mind does them thereby exalting the federal government at the expense of the state governments lane dem hughes rep are favorites new orleans la dec 18 in response to 9,000 letters which were recently sent out by the lawyer and banker a legal and financial publica tion asking the receivers to submit their choice among the leading men of the country for the presidency in 1916 the following answers were re ceived : democratic franklin k line of california 1,1111 wood rmv wilson of new jersey ilkt cliann lnrk of missonr.i too oscar underwood of ai:iu j 345 ieonse iray of delaware 120 choice for vice president was largely favorable to senator lewis of Illinois with vice president mar shall second republican justice hughes of new york j..-m jtodm it mann of Illinois slti : governor elect whit man of new york 10 m t henk'k of ohiu .':; senator isoi.ih of malio 11)7 hiram w johnson of california ti'.l theodore roosevelt of usster kay 11 for vice president senator hui of idaho led all other candidates war makers to face lynching asserts jordan professor attributes all race de generation to armed conflict ! people of slums he says will repopulate europe war destroys everything it creates nothing except destruc tion i venture to predict that the time will come when people will be afraid to agitate or bring on war for fear they will be caught and lynched in these words professor david starr jordan of beland stanford university summed up bis address on war in relation to eugenics in the frances willard hall under the auspices of the eugenics educational society yesterday afternoon professor jordan's talk developed into an argument for perpetual i peace lie lost track of the eugenics j | feature after the first five minutes land declared no nation has ever fallen from its mental and physical estate except through war there is no other agency which destroys an empire as another empire does through the force of arms you can do a great many things by force of arms and fear but noth ing permanent results except de struction the emperor of a nation is the barometer when he goes up â€” ascends in power â€” his people go down and war does not destroy bad men it destroys good men in fact the flower of the nation leaving the pun slovenly un dersized and physically unfit men who cannot fight to be the fathers of the next generation a well-known german proverb conveys this fact stronger than any other expression i know it is war creates more scoun drels than it kills or in the words of benjamin franklin the first man in the united states to see the destruction of war wars are not paid for in war times the bill comes later war alone to blame for race degenerating regarding eugenics and the neces sity for it prof jordan said degeneration would not exist in the human race if it were not for war left alone the various nationalities would purify them selves as they flow along as a river will but through war we kill off the flower of man hood leaving the poorest speci mens to perpetuate the race a herd of cattle will degener ate if you kill off the best and breed the poorest as also will a herd of sheep or a herd of any kind of animals the only reason why it is pos sible to-day to throw europe into war is because of previous wars which have sapped up the flower of its manhood and with that its initiative the people are being driven out like sheep to be slaughtered all believing they are dying for the good of their country and for god not know ing that god doesn't approve of it at all picked 1 men first led to slaughter the late william t stead not long ago prepared a list of uni versity students from germany england france belgium the united states and the other na tions which he called the picked half n-illiou what is becoming of this picked half million 1 was in england during the first few weeks of the war i visited ox ioneral von hin denburg'e victory war now like huge siege of germany expert says kaiser can mass superior num bers at any point on ring but weakens forces by transfers by hilaire belloc foremost military writer of eti rope j london dec 19 the war situation at this moment of writ is as follows about three weeks ago there â– was a very serious mena.ee of a russian advance upon cracow which after investing the fort ress would have had ample re maining forces for the invasion of silesia immediately behind it silesia is the pittsburgh of prussia full of factories ar wealth and also containing landed property of many w have influence with the prus sian governmfiii the russian invasion of silesia therefore would have had a capital effeel â– â€” perhaps a disastrous i upon the rest of the campaign in germany puthÂ»t possession of this point threatened vienna just as ii berlin in order to relieve tin pressure upon cracow a german general who already had won much distinction in the !â€¢â– war â€” that is von him massed troops behind the iron tier by rail leavini â– men in front of c to hold ihe prussian line he hi ought his troops around by the strategic railway which runs parallel with the russo-german frontier to tin north to the neighborhood thorn between the vistula an the warthe anil struck sudd for warsaw the importance oi wasaw v;i th i all the â– railways in russian poland con centrate upon this capital and any one in possession of warsaw and its bridges cuts the com r . munication of any kussinn . operating in middle and north ern poland deadlock aroi'xd warsaw the second battle of warsaw already has lasted a month dur ing the last fortnight there has been developed a curiously unde cided state of affairs the rus sian line extends sixty miles roughly coincident with the line of the river bzura the ex treme right was upon the a'i.s tula the left past and in front of lodz and then further round down the south front to pietro kow the right reposing on the vis tula which most immediately i\v - fends warsaw was only a week ago forty miles from that town the center and left front at lodz suffered a continual increasing pressure on the part of the mans who with consequences [ will spenk of in a moment have been withdrawing men from the west this pressure compelled the russians to evacuate the great manufacturing city of lfodz and the line behind it german pressure on the arrival of further reinforcements from the west continued day after and upon wednesday last de cember 16 the russian right fell back ten miles and though still defending warsaw is now only thirty miles in front of that city ever since then that is during thursday friday n aturday things have been . lstill on this line the slow if continuous ger i man advance naturally has been a made the most of in berlin^b where the press though not tli